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President Lyndon B. Johnson, First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, and Vice President Spiro Agnew standing in a crowd to watch the launch of Apollo 11

Launch Party

On July 16, 1969, President Lyndon Johnson, First Lady Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson, and Vice President Spiro Agnew were among the hundreds of people who watched the launch of Apollo 11 at Kennedy Space Center.
Photograph by Otis Imboden, Nat Geo Image Collection